* On December 12, 2006 -- '''Edvard Munch's birthday''' -- [http://www.google.com/logos/edvard_munch.gif the Google logo] link placed ibiblio's [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ WebMuseum] as [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/ the top Munch resource]. That day we handled '''over 24 million requests in 24 hours'''! A great testimony to our server architecture and our great new hosting facilities at [http://www.ncren.net/ NCREN].

* On December 12, 2006 -- '''Edvard Munch's birthday''' -- [http://www.google.com/logos/edvard_munch.gif the Google logo] link placed ibiblio's [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ WebMuseum] as [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/ the top Munch resource]. That day we handled '''over 24 million requests in 24 hours'''! A great testimony to our server architecture and our great new hosting facilities at [http://www.ncren.net/ NCREN].

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* [http://www.google.com/search?q=ibiblio Google now show over 8.5 million hits for a search for "ibiblio"]

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* [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=ibiblio.org Alexa shows ibiblio's daily reach] as well over 400 per million people and often over 500 per million in the past year. Compare this to the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=unc.edu "reach" of all UNC.edu sites combined] as between 300 and not over 400 per million in the past 6 months.

ibiblio mission

Radically committed to Open Source and Free methods and technologies for supporting and developing software, documentation, community and cultural resources.

ibiblians change

Just one year ago, January 1, 2006, Fred Stutzman left ibiblio for the PhD program at the School of Information and Library Science.

Ken Chestnutt joined us, coming from Accipiter and bringing some strong large datacenter management skills, good humor and strong cooking skills.

In April Donald Sizemore rejoined us from NCSU. He was an ibiblio student employee as an undergraduate in Journalism, then as a Master's student in Information Science. Don's long history with the ongoing culture of ibiblio and familiarity with our users and infrastructure have helped us greatly during our datacenter move.

ibiblio datacenter move

We negotiated a very good new relationship with MCNC and the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) in 2006 as a result we cut our bandwidth and hosting costs by 2/3. And that includes an increase of bandwidth up to a new level of 500 Mbs. The new hosting facilities have already proved much more reliable than our previous hosting and networking set up on campus. Not only is our uptime improved but our ability to deal with surges of requests has improved far beyond our wildest hopes (see ibiblio metrics note below).

We did the move of the entire datacenter with the planning and design and muscle power of Ken and Don and help from student employees -- Jonathan Mills in particular.

ibiblio-metrics

2002

2006

800 Collections

1600+ Collections

3 million ftp+www/day

15+ million ftp+www/day*

1 terabyte of data

8 terabytes of data

1 large server, 2 peripherals

22 www/vhosts

2 database servers

5 database servers

4 radio stations

7 radio stations

0 open-source projects

2 open-source projects

On December 12, 2006 -- Edvard Munch's birthday -- the Google logo link placed ibiblio's WebMuseum as the top Munch resource. That day we handled over 24 million requests in 24 hours! A great testimony to our server architecture and our great new hosting facilities at NCREN.

Collections don't shrink

ibiblio is now host to # collections. The largest is the ever popular etree.org web sites. 2006 marked tremendous change for the flagship site, db.etree with new '2.0' functionality implemented throughout using prototype, script.aculo.us, and rico. Included in the changes is inline editing of setlists. This enhancement has enabled thousands of updates to the database solidifying db's as the resource for live concert information online.

"Open Source in the International Marketplace: What the Open Source Intellectual Property Movement Means for the Developed and Developing World." March 31, 2006. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Invited speaker.

Louis Round Wilson Academy European Meeting. April 25 - May 1, 2006. University of Granada. Featured speaker.

Awards

Press

In part as a result of Paul's work as a Judge for the Lulu Blooker Prize, ibiblio got a several mentions on several programs on the BBC including BBC Worldwide. One interesting result was that former ibiblian Mark McCarthy heard Jones and the ibiblio mention while jogging in Khartoum. Other mentions include BBC-TV, USA Today, Straits Times (Singapore), .net Magazine (UK), Good Morning Tokyo on J-wave Radio (Tokyo), MarketPlace (NPR), and many wire stories worldwide.

In part as a result of Paul's trip to India and his participation in the "Owning the Future" Conference, ibiblio got many mentions in the Indian press including The Hindu